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Friday, June 10, 2011

Total Fpdc Hat

Hello. Happy Summer, everyone. I'm still waiting to start at the Smithsonian, so in the meantime, I was able to write up a hat pattern I've been meaning to do for about a year now. Here it is. I'm going to need to take better pics at some point.

Pattern:

Materials

Worsted weight yarn

K hook

Ch 3 and join with sl st to form ring. Ch 2.

Rnd 1. Dc 12 into ring. Join to first dc with sl st. Join this way throughout. Ch 2.

I am in receipt of those hats that above Katie B made using her pattern. What I like about them is how sturdy, thick and warm they are. AND they can be worn one of 2 ways, straight as you show in your picture and or rolling up the brim which looks very stylish and would aid someone in case the hat was a bit too large. Very nice! Would it be alright if added your pattern and link to my blog under the hats tab? Thanks for your consideration

I just want to thank you for sharing your beautiful patterns and to tell you in the spirit of all of your donations, the hats I am making ALL are 100% free to chemotherapy patients and their families :) Thank you for keeping me busy during my chemo appointments and for helping me help them <3

Love your pattern!!! I am an employee at a women's prison and the offenders are making them through our restorative justice program which donates all items to local charities. Thanks for sharing your gift!!

My b/f needed a winter hat that would be warm but still able to wear under his baseball style uniform hat at work (delivering pizza), this patter works great and what does show has a nice, clean appearance. I modified slightly at the end for the ear-flaps he requested. Great pattern and thanks so much for sharing!!

I'm needing some help.... I've completed about 10 rounds and the hat is just rippled. I'm wondering if it will eventually begin to get the "bowl shape?" It seems to be curving the wrong way if anything, but is really more of a rippled effect. Is there something I'm doing wring? Any suggestions? I don't want to continue just to pull everything out. Thanks.

I'm not quite sure. Do you have access to the particular child/baby you want to make it for? If you do, my best advice would be trying to make it while they are in front of you. I would start the hat as normal, but after the second or third round, skip to Round 6 in the pattern (i.e. stop increasing). Do this for a few rounds or how ever long it takes for you to get a sense of how large (or small) the hat will be. Try it on the child as you go. This will give you a sense if you need to add one more round of increases or if you have too many. If you don't have access to the person you want to make it for, try trial and error, basically doing the same as above but eye-balling it. Use your judgement on if the hat is too large or too small for the age group you are targeting. If it works the first time and is the right size, then good job. If your first trial doesn't work (the hat is too small or too large), try it again but this time increase one more round or one less round than in the first trial. Hopefully, that made sense. One other thing you can try is following the pattern as written but use a smaller hook and a smaller weight yarn. I'm not sure how that will work out, since I've never done this pattern in anything other than worsted weight and a K hook. It might be worth a try, though. But this method would also be trial and error again. That's the best advice I can offer. Hope one of these suggestions works!

Hi there - I made your hat last year for a friend and love it. (Although I made it with Bulky yarn so it was crazy thick and cozy.) Anyways, I'm working on a slipper pattern with the same idea of using the fpdc as you have with the hat. I was wondering if I could tag you in my pattern as the inspiration for the slippers? I will be offering my pattern free as well. Let me know if that is okay with you. Thanks again! Love the hat.